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| Keywords: people Catherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, suo jure 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (22 March 1519 – 19 September 1580), was an English noblewoman living at the royal courts of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and later, Queen Elizabeth I. She was the fourth wife of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who acted as her legal guardian during his third marriage to Mary Tudor, the younger sister of Henry VIII. Her second husband was Richard Bertie, a member of her household. Following Charles Brandon's death in 1545, it was rumoured that King Henry had considered marrying Catherine as his seventh wife, while he was still married to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who was Catherine's close friend. An outspoken supporter of the English Reformation, she fled abroad to Wesel and later to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the reign of Queen Mary I, to avoid persecution. After their return to England, they lived at Catherine's estate, Grimsthorpe in Lincolnshire, and at court. By Richard Bertie, Catherine was the mother of Peregrine Bertie, who married Mary de Vere, only sister of the whole blood of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and of Susan Bertie, who married firstly, Reginald Grey, 5th Earl of Kent, and secondly, Sir John Wingfield, a nephew of Catherine's friend, Bess of Hardwick. Catherine Willoughby, born at Parham Old Hall, Suffolk, on 22 March 1519 and christened in the church there four days later, was the daughter of William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, and his second wife, Maria de Salinas. She was cousin of Don Juan de Salinas, Pariente Mayor of Vizcaya of the House of La Vinuela and Lord Mayorazgo of the House of Salinas in Salinas de Rosio in 1517, from whom come the dukes of Salinas Spanish Grandees in 1814, today represented by His Excellence Don Rodrigo de Villamor Salinas VII Duke of Salinas de Rosio XVI Mayorazgo of the House of Salinas, knight of justice of the Constantinian Order of Saint Georges. Dona Maria de Salinas had come to the English court with Henry VIII's Queen consort, Catherine of Aragon, and was one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting and closest friends. Catherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, suo jure 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (22 March 1519 – 19 September 1580), was an English noblewoman living at the royal courts of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and later, Queen Elizabeth I. She was the fourth wife of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who acted as her legal guardian during his third marriage to Mary Tudor, the younger sister of Henry VIII. Her second husband was Richard Bertie, a member of her household. Following Charles Brandon's death in 1545, it was rumoured that King Henry had considered marrying Catherine as his seventh wife, while he was still married to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who was Catherine's close friend. An outspoken supporter of the English Reformation, she fled abroad to Wesel and later to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the reign of Queen Mary I, to avoid persecution. After their return to England, they lived at Catherine's estate, Grimsthorpe in Lincolnshire, and at court. By Richard Bertie, Catherine was the mother of Peregrine Bertie, who married Mary de Vere, only sister of the whole blood of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and of Susan Bertie, who married firstly, Reginald Grey, 5th Earl of Kent, and secondly, Sir John Wingfield, a nephew of Catherine's friend, Bess of Hardwick. Catherine Willoughby, born at Parham Old Hall, Suffolk, on 22 March 1519 and christened in the church there four days later, was the daughter of William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, and his second wife, Maria de Salinas. She was cousin of Don Juan de Salinas, Pariente Mayor of Vizcaya of the House of La Vinuela and Lord Mayorazgo of the House of Salinas in Salinas de Rosio in 1517, from whom come the dukes of Salinas Spanish Grandees in 1814, today represented by His Excellence Don Rodrigo de Villamor Salinas VII Duke of Salinas de Rosio XVI Mayorazgo of the House of Salinas, knight of justice of the Constantinian Order of Saint Georges. Dona Maria de Salinas had come to the English court with Henry VIII's Queen consort, Catherine of Aragon, and was one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting and closest friends. | ||||
